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I doubt whether [Eakins] is a prolific worker or works with an idea of making money. . . . He seemed to me much more like an inventor working [out] curious & interesting problems for himself than an average artist. . . . 
Art critic Marianna Griswold van Rensselaer to S. R. Kohler, June 12, 1881^{1(p xi)}

It seems to me that no one should work in a life class who thinks it is wrong to undress if needful. . . . I never in my life seduced a girl, nor tried to, but what else can people think of all this rage and insanity? . . . so much smoke for so little fire.
Thomas Eakins to Edward H. Coates, February 15, 1886^2(p214)

James C. Harris, MD